Harry Courtney

{{Short description|American baseball player (1898–1954)}} {{for|the Australian rugby league player|Harry Courtney (rugby league)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |position=Pitcher |image=H.S. Courtney in baseball uniform LCCN2016819624 (cropped).jpg |bats=Left |throws=Left |birth_date={{Birth date|1898|11|19}} |birth_place=Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1954|12|11|1898|11|19}} |death_place=Lyme, Connecticut, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 13 |debutyear=1919 |debutteam=Washington Senators |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=September 3 |finalyear=1922 |finalteam=Chicago White Sox |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=22–26 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=112 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=4.91 |teams= *Washington Senators ({{mlby|1919}}–{{mlby|1922}}) *Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1922}}) }} '''Henry Seymour Courtney''' (November 19, 1898 – December 11, 1954) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in the Major Leagues from {{baseball year|1919}}–{{baseball year|1922}} for the Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox.

He also played for the Washington Senators of the American Professional Football Association in 1921. That season signed with the football Senators for their November 20 game against a team from Clarksburg, West Virginia. However Clark Griffith, the owner of the baseball Senators, found out about Courtney moonlighting as a football player. Griffith ordered Courtney to stop playing football or risk finding himself without a job in baseball. Courtney gave up his football career and continued to focus only on baseball.

He was born in Asheville, North Carolina and died in Lyme, Connecticut.

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